Cocktail Hour

Whenever I get the chance to document the cocktail hour, I love grabbing my LOMO and capturing some real moments of the guests. Since the LOMO is small and inconspicuous, I can move through the crowd and look like I belong. Most people don't want a huge camera in their face when they are just sipping on a drink and having a conversation. As a photographer you have to give guests time before you are a bit more obvious with your image taking (after the alcohol has set in and they are dancing you can be more intentional). Nothing is worse than making the guests feel uncomfortable!
Here are a few favorite images from Catherine and Payton's cocktail hour!

Portrait Studio with Lomo (For Laura & Todd)

One offering we love to provide at a wedding reception is our portrait studio. Its value is that it provides the bride and groom photos of their guests without the images being staged and stifled. We traditionally use a digital camera to capture these images but we have recently mixed it up.

At Josh & Laura's wedding we set up a Polaroid portrait studio:



For Laura and Todd I decided to capture some of the images by strobing my LOMO:





Here's a few I snapped of my assistant/brother Phil. These were taken before I got the strobe working, but I really like the blur:





Thoughts? Any suggestions for other ways you would like to see us shoot portrait studio?

Shoes [Details]

I'm learning to like shooting nice clean details but in a perfect world this is how I would capture them.

This is just one of my favorite shots of Annie and Hudson's wedding that we just posted.

Check out their album HERE!